Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

hudsonvalleypost.com

Hudson Valley Post – Real-Time Hudson Valley News – Hudson Valley News

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

673 ms

Page Rendered

439 ms

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About Website

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Hudson Valley Post, a Townsquare Media site, reports the real-time Hudson Valley news and information your community is sharing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hudsonvalleypost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hudsonvalleypost.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value64.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value107,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value138.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hudsonvalleypost.com

148 ms

css

34 ms

base.css

34 ms

analytics.js

460 ms

morpheus.townsquaremedia.local.1594.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Hudsonvalleypost.com, 33% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 21% (9 requests) were made to Huddledmassessupply.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (505 ms) relates to the external source Apis.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 342.4 kB (52%)

Content Size

658.1 kB

After Optimization

315.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Hudsonvalleypost.com main page is 658.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 318.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 147.9 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 28.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 147.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 162.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Hudson Valley Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 194.5 kB

  • Original 318.5 kB
  • After minification 318.5 kB
  • After compression 124.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 194.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hudson Valley Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hudsonvalleypost.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

hudsonvalleypost.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hudsonvalleypost.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hudsonvalleypost.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hudsonvalleypost.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hudson Valley Post. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: